Friday, August 30, 2019
Paparoa Range Netball
This week, the Paparoa Range School Netball team participated in all schools Netball tournament. We had 5 games versus Karoro, Paroa, St. Patricks B, Awahono and St Patricks B again. The positions I played were GA (Goal Attack) 4 times and C (Center) once. I really enjoyed the Netball and I can't wait for next time.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
St. Johns First Aid Workshop
St. Johns First Aid Workshop
This day today, the amazing Room 8 got to do a First Aid Workshop. Yay!! What we did first was walk to the library, entered the library and sat down in a half circle shape. This was so that the St. John person that was teaching us could see everyone. What we did first once we had sat done was the lady introduced herself as Katherine. Katherine handed out little cards that had how to do CPR on one side and a First Aid Guide on the other.
We got straight into it after that. She started talking about what you do if somebody is unconscious and how to help them. When someone is unconscious, all of your muscles suddenly will go into floppy mode including your tongue.
So, if your trying to help somebody that is unconscious and one their back, the first thing you do is constantly tapping them in the collarbone and asking "Can you hear me?" or "Are you listening" or something similar to check that they are not sleeping. If they don't respond by looking at you or talking back, you must put two fingers on their chin and the other hand on their forehead and you tilt their head back. If you don't do this, their tongue would fall back and cover their airway which allows you to suffocate. Once you have done this you then must bring the arm closest to you up to their head bend the farthest knee away from from up wards. Place your hand on the bent up knee and your other hand on their shoulder farthest away from you and pull them onto their side. Then, the leg you hand bent and the shoulder you had, put them out in front of them so they don't laid on their stomach. Once again, tilt their head back so they can breathe and then you can run for help. This position is so that if they vomit, they won't suffocate themselves yet they can still breathe. We then paired up and tried this on each other.
The next thing she taught us was how to help someone who had cut their artery or vein. What you do is you immediately put pressure on with a clean hand. If you have cut a vein, blood will come out in little waves where if you have cut your artery, blood can squirt out up to two meters. If you have a first aid kit with you, get out a dressing pad or something similar. Switch from using your hand to the pad. Next you want to put a bandage or the cut yet keeping on the pad. When rolling on the bandage make sure you go a little bit up from the cut and a little down so that the blood doesn't drizzle down or up from the cut. Once you have rolled on the bandage, make sure you can get two fingers under the bandage. If you can't get two under its too tight and you have to redo it. Too tight and your hand can go purple. Too loose and the bandage won't do anything. If the blood seeps through the bandage yet it's not loose, just put on another bandage or apply pressure. We then paired up and tried this on each other. (Without the cut!)
To finish off the hour and a half session, Katherine showed us most things that are in a first aid kit. Getting into teams on three, we looked at the objects for a minute then wrote as many down as you could remember. Our team got 16 out of 17 tieing first equal!
The workshop was very fun, thank you Katherine.
This day today, the amazing Room 8 got to do a First Aid Workshop. Yay!! What we did first was walk to the library, entered the library and sat down in a half circle shape. This was so that the St. John person that was teaching us could see everyone. What we did first once we had sat done was the lady introduced herself as Katherine. Katherine handed out little cards that had how to do CPR on one side and a First Aid Guide on the other.
We got straight into it after that. She started talking about what you do if somebody is unconscious and how to help them. When someone is unconscious, all of your muscles suddenly will go into floppy mode including your tongue.
So, if your trying to help somebody that is unconscious and one their back, the first thing you do is constantly tapping them in the collarbone and asking "Can you hear me?" or "Are you listening" or something similar to check that they are not sleeping. If they don't respond by looking at you or talking back, you must put two fingers on their chin and the other hand on their forehead and you tilt their head back. If you don't do this, their tongue would fall back and cover their airway which allows you to suffocate. Once you have done this you then must bring the arm closest to you up to their head bend the farthest knee away from from up wards. Place your hand on the bent up knee and your other hand on their shoulder farthest away from you and pull them onto their side. Then, the leg you hand bent and the shoulder you had, put them out in front of them so they don't laid on their stomach. Once again, tilt their head back so they can breathe and then you can run for help. This position is so that if they vomit, they won't suffocate themselves yet they can still breathe. We then paired up and tried this on each other.
The next thing she taught us was how to help someone who had cut their artery or vein. What you do is you immediately put pressure on with a clean hand. If you have cut a vein, blood will come out in little waves where if you have cut your artery, blood can squirt out up to two meters. If you have a first aid kit with you, get out a dressing pad or something similar. Switch from using your hand to the pad. Next you want to put a bandage or the cut yet keeping on the pad. When rolling on the bandage make sure you go a little bit up from the cut and a little down so that the blood doesn't drizzle down or up from the cut. Once you have rolled on the bandage, make sure you can get two fingers under the bandage. If you can't get two under its too tight and you have to redo it. Too tight and your hand can go purple. Too loose and the bandage won't do anything. If the blood seeps through the bandage yet it's not loose, just put on another bandage or apply pressure. We then paired up and tried this on each other. (Without the cut!)
To finish off the hour and a half session, Katherine showed us most things that are in a first aid kit. Getting into teams on three, we looked at the objects for a minute then wrote as many down as you could remember. Our team got 16 out of 17 tieing first equal!
The workshop was very fun, thank you Katherine.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Super Ski Trip!!
The Year 7 & 8 Super Ski Trip
On Thursday, the year 7 and 8s went on our annual ski trip to Porters Ski field. Once we were at Porters after a looooong drive, we quickly got changed into our ski pants, jacket and put on our ski goggles. Once everyone was finally changed, we got to go and gather up our skis and ski boots. How we did this was we all got a number on our hand, (I was number 2) and then we went into the room where people gave you your boots and skis. They looked at your number and then went into the rows of boots to find the right pair for you. We then sat down and put this on except they were hard to put on as they were so tight.You had to jump and wiggle just to shove your foot in. (We had put our shoes in a bag for afterwards). We then walked outside to show the people our number again and then they would find the right skies for us. However, it was really hard to walk as you couldn't move your foot in the boot.
Once we were all sorted and had our skies on and were on the snow, we learnt the basics of skiing. This included the 'pizza'. This is when you push your heels out to form a triangle to help slow you down and stop when going slow. We then got to go down a really little slope to practise. We were still practising when suddenly an instructor called us over to see if we could weave in and out of 3 cones. This was too see if she could take us up to the Pommer. The Pommer is a decently steep slope which is the next slope up from the learners. On my first try I passed along with Regan. We were the only 2 though. To get to the top of the slope, you couldn't walk, you had to take a sort of lift. They look like flying fox seats except you don't sit on them, you still stand up and put the seat in between your legs this way you can get dragged up. At the top the instructor talked to Regan and I about how we had to go down. We had to go to the very edges of the slope then turn to go to the other side yet sloping downwards, like a snake. We both found this very fun and kept on going up. Nearer the end I could go almost down only doing very little turns in the middle. This way I could pick up speed and I would only slow down at the end on the last corner. Skiing was a lot of fun and I can't wait until the next ski trip next year.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Motueka O.D.E
Motueka One Day Event
On Saturday early in the morning, Mum and I were packing the car to go to Motueka for my first one day event. We were also taking up a friend, who was also riding in the O.D.E. We loaded my pony, Casper then Rosie, my friends pony.
On Sunday was the event. A one day event is a type of show that you do on your Horse or Pony. First you do your Dressage. Dressage is when you memorize a test which involves Cantering, Trotting and Walking. At the higher levels of Dressage you also have to do extended paces, collected paces, working paces and many more complicated moves. Dressage is to see how graceful and obedient you Horse or Pony is. For example Canter between M and C, Trot at E and change the rein through K, X and M. Each movement is rated by the judge out of 10.
Cross Country comes next. Cross Country is when you and your Horse/Pony has to jump a number of jumps, however Cross Country jumps are mostly made of wood, meaning they are solid. You have to go over the jumps in the right order without any refusals, (when your Horse or Pony stops before the jump), and also get across the finish line in the time limit. If you come in over the time limit, you get time faults, you do NOT want any faults including refusal faults.
Last comes Show Jumping. Show Jumping is in an arena usually, and is similar to Cross Country. Show Jumping is when you have to jump all of the jumps in the right order. Unlike Cross Country, Show Jumps have stands that hold the poles which are usually colourful and can be very scary for your mount. Show Jumping jumps aren't solid, but easy to knock. Usually each pole you knock will give you 4 faults as well as refusals. Like Cross Country you don't want faults.
I did really well in my dressage coming 4th. However, since it was starting to snow on the roads that go home, we had to leave so I didn't see my Cross Country and Show Jumping Results. I do know though that I came 7th over all of about 20 something people. It was really fun at my first O.D.E
On Saturday early in the morning, Mum and I were packing the car to go to Motueka for my first one day event. We were also taking up a friend, who was also riding in the O.D.E. We loaded my pony, Casper then Rosie, my friends pony.
On Sunday was the event. A one day event is a type of show that you do on your Horse or Pony. First you do your Dressage. Dressage is when you memorize a test which involves Cantering, Trotting and Walking. At the higher levels of Dressage you also have to do extended paces, collected paces, working paces and many more complicated moves. Dressage is to see how graceful and obedient you Horse or Pony is. For example Canter between M and C, Trot at E and change the rein through K, X and M. Each movement is rated by the judge out of 10.
Cross Country comes next. Cross Country is when you and your Horse/Pony has to jump a number of jumps, however Cross Country jumps are mostly made of wood, meaning they are solid. You have to go over the jumps in the right order without any refusals, (when your Horse or Pony stops before the jump), and also get across the finish line in the time limit. If you come in over the time limit, you get time faults, you do NOT want any faults including refusal faults.
Last comes Show Jumping. Show Jumping is in an arena usually, and is similar to Cross Country. Show Jumping is when you have to jump all of the jumps in the right order. Unlike Cross Country, Show Jumps have stands that hold the poles which are usually colourful and can be very scary for your mount. Show Jumping jumps aren't solid, but easy to knock. Usually each pole you knock will give you 4 faults as well as refusals. Like Cross Country you don't want faults.
I did really well in my dressage coming 4th. However, since it was starting to snow on the roads that go home, we had to leave so I didn't see my Cross Country and Show Jumping Results. I do know though that I came 7th over all of about 20 something people. It was really fun at my first O.D.E
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